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This is a triple win for Democrats. They got everything they wanted (no second shutdown). They only gave up something they were willing to give up anyway (additional border funding). And, in the process, they didn't have to go along with something they oppose (a wall).

This is a triple win for Democrats. They got everything they wanted (no second shutdown). They only gave up something they were willing to give up anyway (additional border funding). And, in the process, they didn't have to go along with something they oppose (a wall).

Last Friday, President Donald Trump yielded to Democratic demands to reopen the federal government and make way for negotiations on border security, but with no border wall funding, giving a decisive victory to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Democratic party she leads.

More than 30 days after the government’s partial shutdown orchestrated by President Trump, the Democrats' strategy has been to corner the White House in an attempt to demonstrate that negotiations in the Capitol are different.

President Trump's refusal to reach a budgetary agreement with Congress as long as there are no funds for his border wall seems to have gotten out of control, and the consequences worsen every minute that passes.